Comes: Masses, Part 2

Series: Baroque Era  Publisher: A-R Editions
This volume is part of the set Comes: Masses
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Juan Bautista Comes
Masses, Part 2
Masses for Three Choirs

Edited by Greta J. Olson

B096 Comes: Masses, Part 2
978-0-89579-428-4 Full Score (1999) 9x12, vi + 200 pp.
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Juan Bautista Comes (ca. 1582–1643), famed for his polychoral devotional and liturgical compositions, held positions in Valencia and Lerida. Although he may have written as many as eight masses, this edition presents the extant complete masses by Comes for one, two, and three choirs. These works demonstrate changes in texture, harmony, and borrowed materials, which are representative of both Comes and his Iberian contemporaries. In these masses, Comes handles the pacing, balance, motivic plasticity, and varied sound color deftly and, at times, dramatically.
Misa ad instar praelii constructa
Misa de tres contrabajos
Elizabeth Roche, "Massed Choirs," Early Music 28 (May 2000): 296.